He United States Department of Education just approve a good amount of funds for computer learning of several children thanks to the use of Minecraft. The Mojang title is gaining popularity in educational teaching with its Minecraft Education version, designed for use in schools and even with free lesson plans for teachers.
Minecraft collaborated with different studios to offer specific content. In 2021, for example, the educational edition of Minecraft added different courses for International Women’s Day where it taught about women’s suffrage and the role of British activist Emmeline Pankhurs and other representatives of the genre like the Pakistani Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai.
Minecraft at school
Thanks to the Educational Innovation and Research program (Innovation in education and research), the United States Department of Education, received funds worth $4 million to the nonprofit Urban Arts. The goal of this funding is to teach programming and communication sciences to 3,450 students in California and New York who are in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade.
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The program is called “Creative Coders: Middle School CS Pathways Through Game Design” and Minecraft Education will be used to teach programming.
